Customer Reviews

Modern Blues Jamtrax

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book and CD combination make a very nice practice and learning tool for the aspiring blues player. The book illustrates scales and licks in both standard notation and TAB. Chord progressions are shown for each of the 10 tracks on the CD. Various blues textures and keys are explored. Various rythm patterns are illustrated on the CD as well.

While this material could be used to some advantage by the neophyte, it assumes a basic familiarity with guitar, rythm, and picking basics, and with the blues genre as well. And though it correlates the scale patterns with the tracks in the various keys, it does not explain how to use them to improvise or construct solos (for this reason I withheld a fifth star). It also does not cover topics such as turnarounds, double stops, bends, slides, etc.

"Modern Blues Jamtrax" is best used with other blues instruction and lesson materials. I would highly recommend it for the advanced beginner or intermediate player on its value as a practice aid.

Exactly as titled! Backing tracks to play over... nicely done with a great booklet explaining suggestion as to which parts of the scales to use with each track and progressions through the track... You will learn from this book and even enjoy just playing to the songs if you already think you got your scales down pat...covers a variety of beats per minute and scales, great improvisation tool. Also includes the chords so you can eventually just team up with friends and play the whole song without the backing tracks.. I now own six from this series and they all are very well done and worth every penny. Just think... a CD player attached to your Roland's MicroCube with your Fender and this CD hooked up...sitting on the parkbench watching as the... people flow by... with or without your headphones on of course... this series in the blues is well worth the cost...

This is an incredible little package! This is two hundred dollars worth of private lessons for less than what it would cost for one lesson. Nice supplemental booklet that gives you plenty to feast on. Selections are very professionally done and more fun than a room full of monkeys to play with. Very nice little starter riffs and licks to get you going and plenty of scales to guide you.

My teacher suggested this item so I could play scales over. works like a charm and makes plunking a lot more fun..

This set is in the vein of Modern, Blues/Rock like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Cray, Clapton, and ZZ Top. It contains jams that are built around the simplicity of a blues progression, but with all the nuances and groove that keep the blues form interesting, alive and well - even after all these years.

Most importantly it's a guitar lesson that you can use anytime. I found it to be a great way to break out of my guitar playing rut.

First I listened to it checking out the feel and chord progressions. Then I tried to copy the voicings and Rythym Riffs. When I felt comfortable, I began to work with scales and riffs suggested for each track. By the end of the week my chops were feeling like the good 'ole days, when I had free time to jam with alot of different people.

All in all, it's definitly worth it. In fact, I'm looking to get the Rock Trax book next.

This book is fun, there is no doubt about that. However, as an educational tool for blues guitar, it would not be my first recommendation. The price is right and that is what give it my third star.

the good thing is these are great songs to jam to if you understand pentatonics and modes and how to use them. the bad thing is the licks and scales they show you are not recorded on the cd, so therefore you have to know how to read music to understand how the lick is suppose to sound. It does have tab but tab doesn't show you how long to hold each note.

Sounds like some very tired and uninspired studio musicians. Save your money and buy something else!